Post by blacktiger on Jan 16, 2007 4:51:34 GMT
I've been looking for a good SMS forum for a while now and was very glad to hear about this site from kungfukid.
There seems to be mainly fans from regions where the SMS prospered here. But growing up in Canada, I was lucky to have lived in a town with decent SMS support.
My best friend at the time, who loved a block away from me, got a SMS when they first came out. Early on, he could only buy new games for it, since there wasn't such a thing as game rentals at the time.
One of the first games he bought from the local drugs store was The Ninja. We hated it and finished it within an hour. Being the spoiled brat he was, he managed to nag the store clerk enough to convince her to let him exchange it for a different game. That time he got the game that I had originally suggested: Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
Needless to say, I have never tired of that game to this day. And while a few rich kids in town were bragging about playing Super Mario Bros with a toy robot on their shelf, we were playing a game that couldn't be found anywhere else.
When the main rental store in town finally started carrying video games, I got to play most of the SMS games ever released in this country.
I finally got my own SMS some time later, I believe that it was still before the release of the Genesis, in a package deal with among other games, Phantasy Star.
Ironically, I had played through games like Ys and Lord Of The Sword several times before, but hadn't liked PS's non-linear RPG gameplay when we'd rented it earlier.
But now, like every other game I owned, I played it through until I knew it inside out and loved it. PS was the game that made RPG's my favorite genre ever since.
My family got a Genesis when it first came out and I got a Turbografx-16 within it's first year, but I continued to buy and rent SMS games until I moved to the big city(shortly after the release of the Saturn).
Since day one I knew how special the SMS is and as the years go by, my appreciation for it only grows. Technically, the PC Engine/Turbografx-16 is my favorite, with the SMS nearly tied close behind. My love of Ys SMS was one of the driving motivations for me to get a Turbo-CD early on.
Although I've lost most of my original SMS games over the years, I still have at least 30 carts comprising all the best North American releases, several SMS systems, a bunch of MarkIII and SG-1000 games, a mint complete boxed MarkIII Master System, a Korean Gamboy and a SMS to MarkIII converter.
I seem to be concentrating on MarkIII purchases more than SMS these days, but the games themselves have always been my priority with 'collecting'. I care more about playing each game that owning the rarest version and having it sit on a shelf(not that there's anything wrong with that ) and I already have most of the games I really want.
When I first heard the MarkIII FM sound in Phantasy Star on the Saturn PS Collection, I hated it. It seemed to ruin the music I'd loved for years. So I avoided FM sound, even in emulation for years after. It wasn't until I got my MarkIII Master System that I learned to appreciate good FM sound.
I've started compiling FM soundtracks of SMS/MarkIII games on my website if anyone's interested in checking them out. They're all recorded off of real hardware.
I'd like to thank everyone here for keeping the SMS community going strong.
There seems to be mainly fans from regions where the SMS prospered here. But growing up in Canada, I was lucky to have lived in a town with decent SMS support.
My best friend at the time, who loved a block away from me, got a SMS when they first came out. Early on, he could only buy new games for it, since there wasn't such a thing as game rentals at the time.
One of the first games he bought from the local drugs store was The Ninja. We hated it and finished it within an hour. Being the spoiled brat he was, he managed to nag the store clerk enough to convince her to let him exchange it for a different game. That time he got the game that I had originally suggested: Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
Needless to say, I have never tired of that game to this day. And while a few rich kids in town were bragging about playing Super Mario Bros with a toy robot on their shelf, we were playing a game that couldn't be found anywhere else.
When the main rental store in town finally started carrying video games, I got to play most of the SMS games ever released in this country.
I finally got my own SMS some time later, I believe that it was still before the release of the Genesis, in a package deal with among other games, Phantasy Star.
Ironically, I had played through games like Ys and Lord Of The Sword several times before, but hadn't liked PS's non-linear RPG gameplay when we'd rented it earlier.
But now, like every other game I owned, I played it through until I knew it inside out and loved it. PS was the game that made RPG's my favorite genre ever since.
My family got a Genesis when it first came out and I got a Turbografx-16 within it's first year, but I continued to buy and rent SMS games until I moved to the big city(shortly after the release of the Saturn).
Since day one I knew how special the SMS is and as the years go by, my appreciation for it only grows. Technically, the PC Engine/Turbografx-16 is my favorite, with the SMS nearly tied close behind. My love of Ys SMS was one of the driving motivations for me to get a Turbo-CD early on.
Although I've lost most of my original SMS games over the years, I still have at least 30 carts comprising all the best North American releases, several SMS systems, a bunch of MarkIII and SG-1000 games, a mint complete boxed MarkIII Master System, a Korean Gamboy and a SMS to MarkIII converter.
I seem to be concentrating on MarkIII purchases more than SMS these days, but the games themselves have always been my priority with 'collecting'. I care more about playing each game that owning the rarest version and having it sit on a shelf(not that there's anything wrong with that ) and I already have most of the games I really want.
When I first heard the MarkIII FM sound in Phantasy Star on the Saturn PS Collection, I hated it. It seemed to ruin the music I'd loved for years. So I avoided FM sound, even in emulation for years after. It wasn't until I got my MarkIII Master System that I learned to appreciate good FM sound.
I've started compiling FM soundtracks of SMS/MarkIII games on my website if anyone's interested in checking them out. They're all recorded off of real hardware.
I'd like to thank everyone here for keeping the SMS community going strong.